
You can read further about PDX Flying Squads, Parent Coaching and Support, Events and Offerings that I’m involved in, my articles and videos on self-directed education, and more About Me. That’s how my college story unfolded, though now I recommend considering other paths outside of college.Īlong with my responsibilities with ASDE, (1) I run the PDX Flying Squads with my colleague, which is an adventure group for young people to explore and interact with their city (2) support the Flying Squads Network I co-founded (3) write, speak, and share about Self-Directed Education, unschooling, and parenting (4) co-host the podcast, Rethinking Self-Directed Education (5) co-run a deschooling virtual parent meetup group with two other amazing unschooling mamas and most important, along with his father, raise my stepson in the philosophy of Self-Directed Education and partnership parenting. These last two would later be recast with Scott Porter and Bumper Robinson respectively. He also originally voiced Aquaman and Cyborg for the Lego Batman video games.
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in early childhood education at Portland State University. June 30, 1970) voiced Ultraman for the animated film Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths, Captain Atom for the animated series Batman: The Brave and the Bold, and Black Mask for the Arkhamverse video games. Following, I designed my own baccalaureate-”Envisioning the Creative Classroom”-at Western Washington University where I learned more about alternative forms of teaching and learning, and happened to earn a M.S. I was raised in the philosphy of self-directed education and did not attend conventional schooling until I entered a running start program (early college classes) at age 16.


I’m Bria Bloom, Executive Director of the Alliance for Self Directed Education (ASDE) and a private consultant who provides parent coaching and support for those families who wish to apply the ideas of partnership parenting in their family.
